Coach Advice

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Consider posting your questions that you have about coaching. Feel welcome to ask any question: big questions or little questions, even if you think it's too simple or if you will feel foolish asking it.

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Standards Addressed?
  1. Once things start to run, time is not available during year 1, maybe in year 3--BABY STEPS!
  2. Hold the teachers hands the first year
  3. Biggest goal is to get the equipment in the teachers hands and showing them how to use it

Time until equipment is up and running?
  1. Order
  2. Site readiness
  3. Infrastructure
  4. Network capability
  5. Outlets for carts in rooms
  6. Board mounting
  7. Availability of vendors to image equipment and install
  8. Done at the tech. director meeting
  9. Joanna M. and Jim G. will be doing site visits to see what's going on

What do I do until the equipment comes?
  1. Relationship building with teachers
  2. Share the role of the coach with teachers and administrators
  3. Data collector - determined by individual districts; PDE prefers coach is NOT the data collector wants an administrator to be the data collector

Teachers who are participating has not been determined?
  1. That is not the coach's responsibility
  2. Try to have the CFF team to meet this issue and decisions; through information to the team and let them know what you have to do--get Embedded Learning course started--that way the team will make the decisions
  3. Coach's goal is to deliver information to teachers
  4. Get a copy of the grant, if possible
  5. Have to know who the teachers are in order to complete the Site Readiness Checklist

Action Plan?
  1. Take one thing that you want to focus on with the action plan and FOCUS

Jim's Agenda
  1. Future meeting dates
  2. Agenda for future meetings
  3. Continue this collaboration after the grant ends - how can we do this?
  4. Invite other tech. integrators to see how we can make this specific to our region in order to best benefit the teachers in our district